I worked at Meltwater full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Hardly any. My first manager was great though and I continue to stay in touch with her. Also closing days are great if your on quota.
Cons
I don’t think I could say enough in this section. First of all the managing director played favorites more than anyone I have ever seen. She would call out people for messing up out loud in front everyone but yet when one of her “favorites” would literally do the exact same thing she ignored it and never said a lick of anything. Management is incredibly unprofessional as they dislike when any of the sales consultants share their opinion or, god forbid, disagree with anything they say. This company preys on newly graduated recruits who don’t know what it’s like to have a first full time job by working them to death and not allowing them to have personal lives. The quotas are set unreasonably high and if the office is not on quota, the directors doesn’t know how to handle it. They freak out by blaming their teams for not working hard enough even though each person is prospecting until 11pm every night. I would be weary of any ambiguous 5 star reviews for this company as when I was there we directed to go to this website and leave a good review to artificially boost their score to attract more unknowing candidates. You might have the opportunity to make a lot of money but make no mistake, this company is absolutely horrible. I worked in a relatively small office and very soon after starting a total of 10 people left in my office alone and were replaced. The turnover here is ridiculous and they literally have meetings year after year to figure out how to keep more employees. In order to explain this turnover to any new employees they tell them that those people just didn’t want to work or were lazy which couldn’t have been more incorrect. There were tons of people that left that had stellar sales records and worked incredibly hard; they just hated the company and how it took over their lives. On top of all of the stress of trying to sell enough product each month to hit high quotas the directors micromanage to a ridiculous degree. All of the sales consultants and sales success staff accurately described it as a “big brother” atmosphere. Also, the upper management surround themselves with “yes men” and “yes women” as they are so absorbed in their own opinions on how to run things they are not open to hearing ideas their employees have. This is a terrible quality for any leader to have. Leaving this company was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
Advice to Management
Stop promoting people to managers based on sales performance. Just because you can sell doesn’t mean you are good at managing others. Find a different way to reward those who sell well but aren’t good with working with others. It was criminal to have the director I had in a role with power over others as she couldn’t handle pressure or know how to fairly treat her employees. Also, if your actually serious about retaining your employees stop making them work to 10-11pm every night and assigning them work on weekends and allow them to have some semblance of a personal life.
Meltwater
"The office culture creates an enjoyable work environment that makes you excited to go to work everyday" (in 36 reviews)
"Hard work that is not meaningless" (in 31 reviews)
"Work-life balance can sometimes be hard to manage" (in 62 reviews)
"No work-life -balance, inflexible working hours, old fashioned leadership" (in 19 reviews)
Employee Review
Employee Review
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"Great Environment! This place is fun to work, with an energetic crowd that works hard"
I have been working at Meltwater full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
Great People
Fun Atmosphere
Great Benefits
Hard work that is not meaningless
Cons
Could pay more, the offices are in some nice area so the pay should match it.
Advice to Management
Keep up the great work! Amazing company structure
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"Just horrific- started out of college"
I worked at Meltwater full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Hardly any. My first manager was great though and I continue to stay in touch with her. Also closing days are great if your on quota.
Cons
I don’t think I could say enough in this section. First of all the managing director played favorites more than anyone I have ever seen. She would call out people for messing up out loud in front everyone but yet when one of her “favorites” would literally do the exact same thing she ignored it and never said a lick of anything. Management is incredibly unprofessional as they dislike when any of the sales consultants share their opinion or, god forbid, disagree with anything they say. This company preys on newly graduated recruits who don’t know what it’s like to have a first full time job by working them to death and not allowing them to have personal lives.
The quotas are set unreasonably high and if the office is not on quota, the directors doesn’t know how to handle it. They freak out by blaming their teams for not working hard enough even though each person is prospecting until 11pm every night. I would be weary of any ambiguous 5 star reviews for this company as when I was there we directed to go to this website and leave a good review to artificially boost their score to attract more unknowing candidates.
You might have the opportunity to make a lot of money but make no mistake, this company is absolutely horrible. I worked in a relatively small office and very soon after starting a total of 10 people left in my office alone and were replaced. The turnover here is ridiculous and they literally have meetings year after year to figure out how to keep more employees. In order to explain this turnover to any new employees they tell them that those people just didn’t want to work or were lazy which couldn’t have been more incorrect. There were tons of people that left that had stellar sales records and worked incredibly hard; they just hated the company and how it took over their lives.
On top of all of the stress of trying to sell enough product each month to hit high quotas the directors micromanage to a ridiculous degree. All of the sales consultants and sales success staff accurately described it as a “big brother” atmosphere.
Also, the upper management surround themselves with “yes men” and “yes women” as they are so absorbed in their own opinions on how to run things they are not open to hearing ideas their employees have. This is a terrible quality for any leader to have.
Leaving this company was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
Advice to Management
Stop promoting people to managers based on sales performance. Just because you can sell doesn’t mean you are good at managing others. Find a different way to reward those who sell well but aren’t good with working with others. It was criminal to have the director I had in a role with power over others as she couldn’t handle pressure or know how to fairly treat her employees. Also, if your actually serious about retaining your employees stop making them work to 10-11pm every night and assigning them work on weekends and allow them to have some semblance of a personal life.
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Edit • Delete"Great company, great people"
I worked at Meltwater (More than a year)
Pros
Strong culture, the best employees
Cons
Just maturing now, so the company itself (people management) still has some things to learn.
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